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Comparing Resources
| Resource | Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance Standards, Tools for a Surveillance Review |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Provides World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended standards for conducting surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and guidance for conducting a surveillance review. |
| Content | Introducing VPD surveillance, conducting VPD Surveillance, VPD data, quality, the role of VPD surveillance in outbreaks, introduction to disease specific standards, followed by an overview of how to conduct surveillance for each VPDs. |
| Expected outcomes | Surveillance systems are established and functioning according to an agreed international standard, adapted to each health system and epidemiological context. |
| Strengths | Provides a set of standards that countries should consider in establishing and improving existing VPD surveillance. Countries may adapt these standards based on local epidemiology, policy, disease control objectives and strategies. |
| Contraints/Limitations | These guidelines are not intended to be comprehensive for all aspects of VPDs. This document does not include step-by-step surveillance protocols, detailed laboratory methods, templates for line lists or databases, recommendations for monitoring adverse events following immunization or guidance on vaccination coverage surveys. |
| Why use it | Establishment and maintenance of surveillance standards for the purpose of monitoring disease control targets, detection and response to outbreaks. Evidence for decisions around new vaccine introduction, evaluation of immunization programme performance and risk assessments for decisions around preventive supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) introduction or optimizing vaccine schedules, vaccine effectiveness, impact on disease burden, or both, changes in disease strains or types. Surveillance data should be used with immunization coverage data by geographical area to identify areas of poor programme performance. |
| Who should use it | Country managers of immunization programmes and communicable disease surveillance and response . Standardized global surveillance data are also useful for developing global vaccination policy. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/resources/guidance/vaccine-preventable-disease-surveillance-standards-tools-for-a-surveillance-review |
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